bhamfella

Lev, Liberals fight to protect freedom of religion in the US. A small, loud group of folks, who falsely call themselves "conservatives" have waged a full scale war on freedom of religion in order to line their pockets and glorify themselves.The fake religious conservatives threaten christian values and threaten our nation.

Scary that anti-american thinking seems to have crept into APT. Those who wish to use a nonsectarian public entity to espouse their twisted views are not in-tune with our nation's constitution and our foundign fathers' wise decision to keep religion separate from the corrupting influence of policitcs. Our founding fathers drafted a constitution designed to keep "religion" out of the mundane and lowly operation of government as they recognized that religion would be sullied if it was associated with politics. The treaty with triopli in 1797 was adopted by a unanimous senate and specifically states that the United States was not founded upon the christian religion. If our founding fathers were wise enough to protect religion from the corrupting influence of politics, why oh why do the people at APT want to sully religion?

Finally a legit report on Jeffco finances. I'm sick of the smoke and mirrors approach of Carrington. Why haven't we read of the current tax receipts for the County? The state released its current receipts and it showed increases (due to the slightly improved economy, I guess). Time for the Jeffco Commission to come clean about tis actual revenue and spending.

The commission pays absurd sums to its in house lawyers and staff. the county attorney's salary costs 1/2 million, so the long tag lines could be eliminated if they canned the county attorney and used the 1/2 million to pay 10 -15 clerks to handle the long lines. Problem solved.

Bhamliberal, where is your compassion? Folks should get a break if sewer rates are raised. A reduction in the job tax might not make it even, but it is at least an effort. What would you propose - a job tax plus a sewer rate increase on top? Shameful. Working poor deserve a break.

Mmmm, the Bham Board of education should ask one of their many lawyers to find the portion of the Alabama Code that authroizes the State school Board's action. Probabaly will take the lawyer less than 3 minutes, including time to sip coffee.

While the Commissioners have cuts services needed by regular folks, they have done nothing to trim the out-sized pay of their own staff. We endure long lines to renew tags because the Commission deems it too costly to man the line with additional $25,0000 per year clerks. Course, the commisisoners refuse to trim the salary of their $455,000.00 per year county attorney. Just think, if the county attorney was paid the same salary as the Chief Justice of the Alabama Supreme Court ($187,000.00), the Commission could end the tag renewal line by adding 10 additional clerks.

Absurd and ridiculous for the News to say the County will be tossed out of bankruptcy if it doesn't get more money (new taxes). The bankruptcy law is designed to help cities and counties that do not have enough cash to pay their bills by stretching-out the payment of debt, so the News' argument otherwise is false, misleading, and not responsible. Judge Bennitt is a high quality jurist and the News effort to cast him as willing to strong-arm the County out of bankruptcy unless the legislature gives it new taxing power is reprehensible.